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Nobel Peace laureate speaks on campus By Isabelle Doan News Editor

In 2014, the Islamic State launched an attack on Sinjar, Iraq, taking thousands of Yazidi women captive and killing hundreds more. Nadia Murad was one of those captives. She was forced into sexual slavery. Murad’s ordeal has led her to speak out against the Yazidi genocide and sexual violence as an act of war. Along with Denis Mukwege, she was jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts. Just a few weeks after her honor was announced, she spoke at Duke Monday evening as part of the 2018 Crown Lecture in Ethics. Judith Kelley moderated the free public talk, called “Truth is my Weapon: A Campaign Against Sexual Violence and Genocide,” and fellow activist Abid Shamdeen interpreted for Murad. She detailed how ISIS launched its genocide against the ancient religious minority. “[ISIS]’s goal was to eradicate the [Yazidi] community,” Murad said through Shamdeen. “But they specifically targeted women. They wanted to enslave the women.” Murad explained that ISIS knew that for a small community like the Yazidis, the most important thing was dignity and honor. ISIS therefore specifically took Yazidi women into sexual slavery in order to break the community. Many of those who were not captured faced death. Murad said that ISIS killed her mother and six of her brothers, and two nieces were killed after being taken into captivity. “Each Yazidi family has a story like that,” Murad said. “Some of them don’t have stories because the whole family was taken when ISIS attacked. Then they just basically shot everyone.” Despite ISIS’s efforts to break the community, Yazidi religious leaders made a powerful decision—that the women and girls who were taken captive must be reintegrated into the community and respected when they came back. “It was a very courageous decision to... accept them back, despite the ISIS propaganda that they told the women that when they go back they will be killed and not accepted,” Murad said. “We wanted them to know that’s not true.” However, the community faces its own challenges due to the scale of ISIS’s destruction. Murad explained that ISIS destroyed everything—schools and medical centers included. Shamdeen recalled that when Murad went home last May, ISIS’s sheer destruction was apparent. “Even the doors and the windows in her house were taken,” Shamdeen said. Still, Murad worries that the Yazidi people will disappear due to their fractured state. According to Murad, since the genocide See LAUREATE on Page 3

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Charles York | Special Projects Photography Editor Duke’s relationship with the city has changed through the years. The inauguration of Nannerl Keohane as Duke president was a key turning point.

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In the 1990s, Durham’s tobacco and textile industry was receding, the economy was declining and crime was increasing. At the same time, Duke University was on the rise. At the intersection of highways I-40 and I-85, Durham became the drug distribution capital of state, said John Burness, who was Duke’s senior vice president for government relations and public affairs and led the formation of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. And as the town’s main source of income and jobs was disappearing, the newly-inaugurated president Nannerl Keohane recognized Duke’s growing presence and importance to Durham. Sam Miglarese, director of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, explained that the University and Health System became the only existing corporate bodies in Durham. The University was and is the largest private employer in the city and largest employer by dollar volume. However, Burness said the limited corporate presence meant that no one took ownership of the city’s problems, so people turned to Duke. Separate from the city Those inside and outside the University regarded Duke as separate from Durham, Burness said. Duke was an insular place, where students rarely ventured beyond the University walls and were not engaged in the life of Durham. Shops and restaurants downtown would close by 5 p.m. and were viewed as crime-ridden. Miglarese said that Durham residents felt Duke was solely focused on its own agenda of becoming a leader in research, teaching and scholarship. Duke’s interactions with the community were disjoint, unfocused and mostly ineffective, he said. According to Miglarese, many of Durham’s communities of color were research subjects for the University. However, the data that these studies developed were never shared with the communities, and people felt used by Duke.

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Researchers create ‘Frankenstein Students paint mural for proteins’ to heal wounds Pittsburgh shooting PHOTOGRAPHY

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Just ahead of Halloween, Duke biomedical engineering researchers have developed an artificial protein, known as the “Frankenstein protein,” that can help repair damaged body parts. The research team developed an artifically generated elastin, an extracellular, elastic protein that acts like a fluid at lower temperatures and forms an aggregate at higher ones, said Stefan Roberts, first author of the paper and Ph.D. student at Duke. A large component of connective tissue, elastin allows tissues to return to their original form after being disturbed, making it a natural material to use in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Researchers in the collaborative study between Duke and the Pappu Lab at Washington University in Saint Louis generated the protein by decomposing animal tissues and synthesizing them with artificial material, making it a “Frankenstein protein,” Roberts explained. Elastin has been studied for decades, but researchers found limited success in translating designed elastinlike proteins into ones that could be effective in tissue regeneration, Roberts explained. “This is finally a positive step in that direction,” Roberts said. Rohit Pappu, Edwin H. Murty professor of engineering and principal investigator of the Pappu Lab at Washington University in Saint Louis, described elastin as having both “rigid structures” as well as softer ones dubbed “spaghetti.” Researchers at the Pappu Lab had been studying the spaghettilike proteins before their collaboration with the team at Duke. The researchers have manipulated elastin so that

when they inject and integrate the protein mechanically into the body, it would still maintain rigidity and create a strong scaffolding. After it serves its purposes, the protein will react to body temperature and return to a liquid state. With these features, the new protein could be used for diabetic and surface ulcers, as a component between flaps of skin grafts, and for other needs. Which rigid segments are added to the protein polymer determine at what temperature it will form a solid, and when it will fall apart. The rigid structures also determine how much memory the protein will have, Pappu said. “For a skin graft, you might want material that lives in tissue for a year and falls apart,” he added. “So we will change the ratio of ordered to disordered regions and change the hysteresis loop.” Roberts said he and his colleagues observed elastin’s unique property when they were investigating it for other purposes. “Nature has spent millennia designing materials with specific biological functions,” Roberts said. “We are very interested in the idea that we could take those out and redesign them for natural purposes.” Currently, Roberts plan to market this new protein, as there is no other injectable material based in elastin that can be used in such a wide variety of applications. Now as a biomedical engineering entrepreneurial fellow, Roberts will spend the next year to spread its use by collaborating with additional researchers and clinicians at Duke. Pappu’s team, on the other hand, will continue to study the protein and its molecular memory in the context of other diseases. “We know what nature does,” Pappu said. “You can mimic nature, or you can say that we don’t need to be constrained by it.”

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Hyde House Judiciary hearing set By Stefanie Pousoulides University News Editor

On Thursday, the Duke Student Government Judiciary will hear the case of Hyde House v. Duke Student Government Senate. Hyde House, a selective social group, was founded as an alternative to selective living groups and Greek organizations and recently had its chartering denied at the Senate’s Sept. 26 meeting. Sophomore Lindsey Lovitt, president of Hyde House, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that the case is “in response to the biased, unprofessional treatment” received during the DSG Senate meeting. “Through this trial, we hope to demonstrate to the Duke community the injustices DSG senate believes they can inflict without consequences, hold DSG Senate accountable for their actions, and ultimately get a new hearing for our group,” Lovitt wrote in the email. “No matter the outcome, we hope this case serves to fix and bring attention to some of the problems within DSG, a group with immense power on this campus.” President Pro Tempore Avery Boltwood, a junior, wrote to The Chronicle that DSG stands by its decision not to charter Hyde House. “In a discussion between the President Pro Tempore and the petitioner’s representative, the President Pro Tempore helped clarify the distinctions between Public Forum, Senate debating procedure and other procedural questions,” Boltwood wrote.“Following this, I am confident that the hearing will demonstrate that the Hyde House debate was a standard application of Senate procedure, and that the Judiciary will rule accordingly.” The Chronicle obtained Hyde House’s petition,

which cites Section 2 of Title III of the Student Organization Finance Committee by-law and Sections 7 and 9 of Article IX of the DSG Constitution as legal backing for its claims. The petition made specific allegations ranging from there being “no quantifiable procedure” to the Senate’s discretionary powers to approve organizations to the “implementation of Senate procedures” being “conducted in an arbitrary manner.” “We will show that during multiple stages of the Hyde House hearing, the DSG senate failed to adhere to its own procedures, resulting in an unfair housing,” the petition states. “We will additionally demonstrate that DSG voting sentiment was guided by an arbitrary rule that Hyde House would be unable to meet even if procedural practices were facilitated without error, thus violating the ability of Hyde House and organizations to receive due process.” At the Sept. 26 Senate meeting, Lovitt and other executive board members of Hyde House addressed the Senate during public forum “to answer questions about Hyde House and justify the need for its existence,” the petition states. Hyde House members were provided with “30 seconds to respond to questions from senators before [senior and SOFC Chair] Ben Hubsch was questioned,” and the Senate had an “informal discussion before calling for a final roll call vote,” according to the petition. “Given the ambiguous nature of the discretionary powers afforded to the Senate, there is no avenue for regress,” the petition reads. “If students are unable to determine what exactly is wrong with their organization, they can’t make necessary reforms to achieve ‘recognized’ or ‘chartered’ status.”

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LAUREATE FROM PAGE 1 began in 2014, about 65,000 Yazidis have returned to their homes, and 350,000 have remained in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). She added that 85,000 Yazidis have immigrated, mostly to Europe. “What we fear now is that we might lose our identity if we lose our homeland,” Murad said. Murad said the only way to maintain that homeland is if they are able to go back there and safely live there. In the past four years, her efforts have been focused on asking nations to help the Yazidi people rebuild and go back home. Although Murad has met with many leaders, progress has been slow. “Many [leaders] have expressed sympathy, but so far we have not seen action on the ground,” she said. “They have not acted.” Murad explained that she constantly follows up with these leaders. She said that she met the prime minister of Norway five times. “Every time I ask her to at least do something in Sinjar and help us build something,” Murad said. “But obviously, that didn’t happen.” However, Murad fears that if the international community only worries about defeating ISIS and not holding them accountable for their crimes, sexual violence will be perpetuated. In the past, groups such as Al Qaeda, Taliban and Boko Haram have used sexual violence as a weapon of war, and that there was no justice for the victims of these crimes, Murad explained. She said that this is why ISIS uses

this tactic—they know there will be no consequences for their crimes against women. Along with other Yazidi women, Murad said she has testified and worked hard to hold ISIS accountable for their sexual violence against Yazidis. However, Murad said that she has not seen one ISIS member in court being punished. She said she fears that if ISIS is not held accountable now, other groups will continue to use sexual violence. “If nobody speaks about what ISIS did to us, ISIS will simply get away with their crimes, and especially their crimes against Yazidi women,” Murad said. She emphasized that there is still a long fight—thousands still reside in camps for IDPs or are held captive, and homes are destroyed. Winning a Nobel Peace Prize does not solve all of the issues, she said. Indeed, Murad said that it was hard for her when she received word that she was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She thought it would be even more difficult for her to live the simple life that she always wanted. “Just like all the students here, I wanted to simply...study and go to school and have an education,” she said. “My dream was, prior to ISIS, to have a makeup salon...but I was not able to do any of that.” However, Murad has been able to capture one piece of a simple life—love. “What is your next big step?” Kelley asked Murad. “Marrying me,” Shamdeen said, to the laughter and applause of the audience. The pair became engaged this August.

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DURHAM FROM PAGE 1 “This is what I call institutional arrogance—Duke wasn’t self-aware enough to realize that the community closest to them felt like an object of research, without equal partnership,” Miglarese said. Burness explained that the rough connection between the school and the city was mainly due to a differential in power and strained race relations. Many of the communities around campus were lowwealth or minority neighborhoods that lacked social, political and economic leverage. On the other hand, Duke was viewed as a massive institution with rich, white students and high cash flow. “Race is an issue that is endemic to Durham,” Burness said. “The racial tensions in Durham today were the racial tensions when I arrived in Durham in 1990.” At the time, leadership positions, boards and faculty at Duke were also almost entirely white, while the jobs at the bottom of the economic ladder were filled by African-Americans, he noted. Willie Patterson was president of the Crest Street Community Council for 35 years, and he worked at Duke as a

housekeeping supervisor in 1979 and then as a manager. He said that African-Americans were apprehensive to go on campus at the time, and there was hostility between the black workers and students. “The students exercised an attitude as if they were better and on an upper level than us,” he said. “A 19-year-old is better than a poor black man. There was an attitude that was racial that had to be changed.” Although relations on campus have improved, he said this attitude still exists in some situations. Patterson fought to defend his neighborhood when plans to expand Highway 147 threatened to go through the Crest Street community. Crest Street is a majority low-income, African-American neighborhood that has existed since the 1900s. Patterson said the city of Durham has never done anything to help them. Patterson was not only concerned about the highway, but Duke Power was also planning to raise its electricity rate, he said. He explained that Duke was building the Duke North Pavilion building at the time, and they wanted access to the highway. Duke and Erwin Mill were the primary employers near

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There are 10 most commonly celebrated holidays in the United States — among those are of course Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day and Christmas. They all boast their customary frivolities: turkeys, trees, chocolates — but never have I been excited by these marked dates. Perhaps it’s because my family hasn’t celebrated Christmas in nearly 10 years, or because I have an aversion to turkey or haven’t bothered with a significant other to exchange void proclamations of love. Halloween has always been my holiday of choice. I always wore that preference proudly, noting it as a day dedicated to all things scary and strange — something that I never seemed to stop identifying with. With Halloween comes the hackneyed proclamation of “spooky season”’s arrival and a flood of tawdry, poorly executed costume parties, boasting more black cats and Batmans than I would ever care to see again. Instead, my fascination with Halloween lies in its lore: the enchanting and otherworldly mythology of witches, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. Coupled with the fall season, Halloween brings on a pleasant isolation. The melancholic air of the holiday is somehow invigorating. In a sense, the holiday presents a staggering reminder of our own mortality. Rooted in pagan practice and Dia de Los Muertos, Halloween blurs the boundaries between the living and spirit realms, and was traditionally viewed as an opportunity to find comfort in the spirits of lost friends and relatives. The idea that life extends past the living is a comfort to many. For me, my fear lies in the uncertainty of how that life — if one exists — will compare. Representations of the spirit world are often bleak and typically denote a limbo state between being truly living or truly dead. They say life is for the living, so to continue life after death erases its perceived finality. My most vivid Halloween memories were reading fearsome classics by the likes of Poe, Irving and Wilde. The legendary chase between the headless horseman and Ichabod Crane in

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“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” still summons a fear of being alone at night, and the fatal personification of Dorian Gray’s vanity in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” remains the most chilling tale I’ve encountered. Halloween conjures recollections of my inventive imagination as a child. On the periphery of my elementary school playground, there was an especially gnarled tree with dark brown bark, fenced off and easily distinguishable from the rest. My classmates and I dubbed it “the witch tree” by consequence of its protruding nose-like trunk. We fabricated an entire legend, that the tree was only a tree by day, and a witch by night. We imagined that the

editor’s note witch was always watching the kindergarteners and plotting which one to claim next. In truth, I scare easily. Although ghost stories were the root of my nightmares, I couldn’t help but to devour every book in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” canon. Ghosts were my primary fear and I was paralyzed by the thought of having to sleep in complete darkness. So it’s clear that I do not have a particular fondness for being frightened, but my fascination with Halloween remained unwavering. There’s no doubt that dressing Halloween’s foremost discernable characteristic. “Scary” costumes were traditionally worn to ward off demonic spirits, and although the massproduced and commodified costumes of today bear little resemblance to the deeply disturbing costumes of old, they remain an unequivocal aspect of the holiday. That isn’t to mention the racially and culturally insensitive costumes that

somehow to continue to circulate despite every indication of their tackiness. I’ve gone through every archetypal costume imaginable. My mother started me off relatively tame, opting for a pumpkin costume for my very first Halloween. That progressed into becoming a witch, then a pirate and, of course, a vampire. The culmination of my impersonations was Alex Delarge from “A Clockwork Orange” in my senior year of high school (my friends opted for a football player and Minnie Mouse, so you can imagine how ill-matched we were). But our fascination with impersonation and imitation highlight Halloween’s duality. Not only in exploring the dichotomies of the living and the dead, but also in ourselves — how we internalize or empathize with who we decide to become and how we distinguish the self from the other. Our preoccupation with pastiche, idealism and fantasy are inevitably reflected in our choice of disguise, but at what other time of year can we break free from the confines of mediocrity? Halloween will likely remain my favorite holiday for the foreseeable future. For me, the season’s allure lies in its mystery — the uncertainty in what lies beyond the mortal world and an acknowledgement of the physical manifestations of “good” and “evil.” Each year I look forward to the hair-raising revelry of Halloween and I imagine this year will be no different. —Sarah Derris

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Haunted Arts Annex brings Halloween to the campus arts scene By Kerry Rork Satff Writer

Halloween is the perfect day to spend time with friends, eat lots of candy and junk food and dress up in spooky costumes. Since Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, some students have been looking for ways to celebrate the holiday on campus. For those who want a break in their week to enjoy Halloween without the hassle of going off-campus, duARTS is hosting its second annual Haunted Arts Annex from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., a night of crafting and snacking for Duke and its surrounding community. The event offers T-shirt screen printing, marble leaf making, yarn pumpkin making, painting, pumpkin origami garlands and much more. Along with free pizza and Halloween costume contest, there will also be a surprise activity hosted by the Arts Annex staff to look forward to. Before the event from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., students can help create a jazz-themed mural outside the Arts Annex with the local muralist Dare. “Whether you go alone or with a large group of people, there will be something to do, whether it’s crafting, painting, enjoying free food, eating Halloween candy, or screenprinting a shirt,” duARTS co-vice presidents Cameron Oglesby and Pingyi Zhu wrote in an email. By organizing this event and other duARTS events around campus, Oglesby and Zhu hope to engage students with the diverse arts community on campus and provide inclusive programs and events for the Duke student body. Oglesby and Zhu had different academic backgrounds when they came to Duke, but they both wanted to find a strong arts community

at Duke. They quickly became interested in duARTS and its many leadership opportunities. “When I first decided to come to Duke I wanted to make sure my passion for the arts didn’t get left behind as I pursued an environmental science degree,” Oglesby wrote. “It was through the duARTS First Year Intern Program last year that I really got a sense for the arts community, what duARTS could do for me as an artist, and the potential for multidisciplinary programming on campus.” This common fear of sacrificing arts interest or skills for different careers is shared by many Duke students who have this creative side but are pursuing other majors, particularly those

in STEM. What duARTS hopes to establish is the opportunity to blend those desires and participate in both sides of the undergraduate experience with leadership opportunities and unique events, even providing connections that bridge the perceived academic and artistic gaps. For Zhu and Oglesby, the Haunted Arts Annex is a perfect way to combine diverse campus groups and allow them to express a different side of themselves. “Those who come to this (and any of our other events, really) are contributing to the greater artistic community simply by being appreciators, supporters, and creators,” Zhu and Oglesby wrote. But the Haunted Arts Annex is just one way

that they can involve the Duke community in the arts community. Zhu and Oglesby hope to continue the momentum into the rest of the year, searching for other ways to strengthen this arts community. For them, the Haunted Arts Annex is a great way to promote or introduce the Duke community to the many possibilities. “When people think of Halloween, they probably think of candy and trick-or-treating, but this event invites the arts into this holiday in different forms: the freedom to decorate, the freedom to paint, and the freedom to use the Arts Annex as the space it was intended to be,” Zhu and Oglesby wrote.

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DEMAN: How young creative professionals find their first jobs By Christy Kuesel Recess Editor

Fall marks recruiting season at Duke, with financial and consulting firms making offers for summer interns and full-time positions. Students with a stronger interest in creative fields often feel left out among friends returning from the summer with full time job offers. DEMAN Weekend can be a key networking event for students looking to enter creative industries. Creative professionals from around the country will return Friday and Saturday to host information sessions, talk to students and share their expertise. One new session this year highlights young professionals who will discuss how they got their first jobs in the field. The Chronicle spoke with some of the young graduates returning for DEMAN Weekend, and asked for their expertise in how to find a first job. Getting in the door When Chris White, Trinity ‘17, graduated as a visual media studies major with documentary studies and arts of the moving image certificates, he did not have a job lined up. “Most of my close friends were in different industries, and they had their jobs lined up pretty early on,” he said. He took solace, though, in his experiences at DEMAN Weekend, which takes its name from the Duke Arts & Media Network. There he heard stories from Duke alumni still managed to find success in their preferred field, even though some graduated without any job offers. A few weeks after graduation, White got a call to work as a grip on a movie set. White initially considered declining the offer due to his lack of experience, having only worked as a grip once for Freewater Productions, but changed his mind. “I tried to make each day better than the last, and it ended up being a really, really great experience,” White said. He went home and watched YouTube tutorials after working 12-hour days to take full advantage of the job. The confidence White gained working as a grip allowed him to ask to be an assistant director on another short film. He said putting himself out there, even when he did not feel completely qualified, helped get him where he is today. He is now in the T3 program at Turner Studios in Atlanta, designed for recent college

graduates to work their way up to a full-time job. He rotates every month for 11 months in the editing department and assists editors in different networks. White said he did not see himself going into film editing, as he was first interested in film production. “At the same time, I wanted to do anything I could to get in the door,” he said. He said he foresees himself staying at Turner, but is open to other opportunities. He would like to become a producer or editor in the long term. Taylor Jones, Trinity ‘18, is a member of the NBCUniversal Page Program in Los Angeles. She was a political science major at Duke and completed the policy, journalism and media studies certificate. Her experience in the Duke in L.A. study away program sparked her interest in the entertainment industry and showed her how many opportunities there are in the field. “I learned that I have a lot of interests, and I really wanted to find a job or a program that allowed me to explore them in a lot of different ways,” she said. Jones loved the city so much that she stayed for the summer, taking an internship at HBO. After graduating this year, she worked as a freelance writer and applied to a number of jobs, including the August cohort of the 12 to 15-month NBC program. She is currently an assistant data analyst in Universal Cable Productions, looking at industry trends and helping NBC making better business and creative decisions, and will rotate to three more departments during her time there. She said her job shows her almost every aspect of the entertainment industry. “Right now, tech companies are really becoming media companies,” she said. More and more of her job is taking stock of what Netflix, Hulu, Snapchat, Facebook and Amazon are doing. Jones said she might be interested in exploring this trend after her program ends, or looking at social justice and diversity work in the media. “This program is helping me shape my interests in a way I can’t even predict,” she said. Other graduates coveted a job at a particular company. Jenna Poczik, Trinity ’18, is a growth marketing associate at Artsy, the world’s largest online art marketplace, and combined her interests in art and technology. She had been interested in Artsy as an undergraduate,

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even incorporating it into class projects. “I loved Artsy’s mission to expand the art market to support more artists and art in the world … so I followed job postings closely throughout my senior year,” she wrote in an email. She interned at the Nasher Museum of Art with the marketing team for her sophomore, junior and senior years. This experience helped her get an internship in the digital media department at the Whitney Museum of American Art the summer before her senior year. Being a member of the Nasher Museum Undergraduate Student Executive — Nasher MUSE — allowed her to network with museum professionals, as members were able to attend a board dinner with the board of advisers and Nasher staff each year. The Duke difference? Amanda Lewellyn, Trinity ’17, is an audio producer at theSkimm, working on programs including “Skimm Notes” and “Skimm’d from the Couch.” She had an internship there the summer before her senior year and started as an editorial assistant after graduation. She then worked in a research role. Practical experiences at Duke, like working in the Reporters’ Lab and creating a biannual magazine at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, also helped Lewellyn develop the skills necessary for her current position. What she learned — like fact checking, research and managing a team — have proved useful after graduation. But sometimes the experiences you don’t get are just as important as those you do. Lewellyn said getting rejected by clubs and activities at Duke was a key part of her experience, as it made her work harder and push herself out of her comfort zone. “In media, nobody is going to tell you where to go, much less how to get there,” Lewellyn wrote in an email. “You have to decide for yourself.” She said being proactive by asking questions and reaching out to mentors, even if it only led to rejection, was necessary. Chris White did learn practical skills at Duke, like how to edit videos using Adobe Premiere, but he said problem-solving skills and learning how to work with a lot of different people have been more useful in his post-graduate life. “Problem solving is probably the number one thing that everyone on my team does,” White said. “Editing is very creative, but it’s also a puzzle.” Jones agreed, saying a good attitude is more

important than skills. “As a Duke student, people know that you’re smart, and most people in Hollywood come from really good schools,” Jones said. “They care about your ability to be charismatic and do things with a smile.” Many tasks in Hollywood, like going on grocery store runs or being an assistant, may seem menial, Jones said. Doing these tasks with a good attitude is what gets you noticed by your superiors. Network, network, network As with all careers, networking is key for entering the creative industry. “All it really takes is one person to get you in the door,” White said. He recommended reaching out to alumni in desired fields and showing work. Jones said students interested in pursuing creative passions like writing or directing should get involved while undergraduates. “If you can create a portfolio now, even if you think it’s trash, somebody is going to look at it and appreciate the fact that you carved time out in your schedule to invest in your creative work,” Jones said. “You’re never going to have as much time as you do in college.” She also said connecting with as many Duke alumni as possible is also important. “There are a lot more Duke alums in the entertainment industry than people like to think,” she said. Poczik wrote that media and art jobs do not have the clear paths set up in other industries. “It can and will feel stressful when everyone around you has a plan,” she wrote. The best piece of advice she received was from a Duke alumna working at a museum, who stressed the importance of being patient and waiting for the right opportunity. Lewellyn advised to not worry about the future too much. She urged undergrads to think of choosing a career as a process of elimination, not picking the perfect job right out of the gate. “Chill out,” she wrote. “It’s fine if you’re 20 and don’t know how you want to spend the rest of your life.” Jones said working in creative industries involves taking risks, whether that means moving across the country or working for a less alluring salary than one might get on Wall Street. But waking up among palm trees in Los Angeles and heading to NBC Studios every day makes it all worth it. “To work in this industry takes courage,” she said.

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Get in the Halloween spirit with selections from the Recess staf f By Recess Staff Halloween is upon us, and with the holiday comes classics in film, TV shows, music and books. The Recess staff selected some of the spookiest media to enjoy on All Hallows Eve: New Order, “Elegia” Bless your ears this Halloween with eerie synth, complete with a guitar sequence for the ages. Miranda Gershoni, contributing writer, first-year Helen, “Witch” Although most of the so-called “Italo disco” from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s is marked by a playfully campy sensibility, this single from an enigmatic studio project known simply as Helen strikes a comparatively darker tone: Over an unusual 6/4 beat that seems to circle in on itself, an ominous bass line punctuates each bar while singer Elena Ferretti’s airy vocals tell a dark tale of ... something? Like many Italo disco tracks, the lyrics, sung in heavily accented English, are secondary. But at least one sentiment is clear: “She’s a witch.” Will Atkinson, culture editor, junior “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” If you haven’t seen “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” you are definitely missing out on this Halloween favorite, which is sure to make you feel like a kid again. With Charlie Brown’s classic ghost costume and Linus’s obsession with the mystical Great Pumpkin, this classic is the perfect way to celebrate the season. Kerry Rork, staff writer, first-year “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Buffy has everything a good Halloween

TV show needs: female empowerment, mildly scary storylines and prime ‘90s fashion. Oh, and the sexy vampires don’t hurt. Jessica Williams, media production editor, senior “Shaun of the Dead” One of the best action-comedy movies of the century, “Shaun of the Dead” combines the always-hilarious duo, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, to create a perfect zombie movie. The movie follows Pegg (Shaun), as he and his best friend Ed (Frost) attempt to escape a zombie invasion in their small British town. The cult classic is worth a watch around Halloween time or really anytime if you’re in the mood for a buddy comedy. Jack Rubenstein, staff writer, first-year “Shirkers” Premiering at Sundance and Full Frame film festivals, Shirkers has found success as one of the most gripping documentaries in the past year. Although not the obvious Halloween choice, “Shirkers” centers around the mysterious disappearance of Sandi Tan’s mentor Georges Cardona, who stole the film he and Tan collaborated on in the 90’s. Tan’s film whisks her viewers away in a tale that only becomes more unsettling as it unfolds — and it’s now on Netflix. Sarah Derris, managing editor, sophomore “Hocus Pocus” Every October, for as long as I can remember, my whole family gathers to watch “Hocus Pocus,” easily reciting most of the lines from memory. And although we haven’t been able to do it the last couple of years — we’re too widely flung now and don’t come together as often — it still manages to stir up that same warmth, comfort, and pure bliss it always has,

no matter what. (Also, I always catch myself saying: Amok! Amok, Amok, Amok, Amok!) Nina Wilder, design editor, junior “Psycho” As one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most iconic films, “Pyscho” is a thrilling experience I keep returning to every Halloween. And it’s not too scary — as long as you don’t frequent secluded motels by yourself. Christy Kuesel, Recess editor, senior “The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe” Laden with gothic suspense, gruesome murder scenes and masterly storytelling, Poe’s classic works have defined our understanding of horror and detective fiction since they were first published. Such notorious stories as “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” or “The Tell-Tale Heart” contain eerily somber insights into the

depths of human psychology, and guarantee a proper Halloween scare when read after dark. Joel Kohen, staff writer, junior Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” Amidst the fun, costumes and spookiness of Halloween, perhaps it is also appropriate to pick up this all-time classic to philosophize on what it truly means to be different. Eva Hong, features editor, sophomore Ray Bradbury, “The Illustrated Man” Although any of the hundreds of short stories penned by Ray Bradbury are sufficiently spooky for a quick, chilling Halloween read, the horror and science-fiction tales in his 1951 collection “The Illustrated Man” are especially effective, delivering unrelenting goosebumps and spine tingles. Sydny Long, student life editor, sophomore

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Ahead of Hollywood remake, Carolina Theatre screens ‘Suspiria’

By Joel Kohen Staff Writer

Given the towering dominance of Hollywood in the modern age of filmmaking, it seems quite improbable that a production from a smaller European genre cinema could have an everlasting impact on America’s cultural memory. This, however, is precisely what happened in July 1977, when Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” first premiered in theaters, five months after its initial release in Italy. This year, a highly anticipated Luca Guadagnino-directed remake is set to be wide released Friday, and ample comparisons to the original are bound to follow. To celebrate the cult film which ushered in a new era of horror film-making, the Carolina Theatre has scheduled several screenings of an uncut, 4K restoration from Monday to Thursday. The screenings are part of the Carolina’s ongoing Retro Film Series that regularly invites movie-lovers to enjoy their classic favorites on the big screen. Recent features included Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” Michael Curitz’ “Casablanca” and the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski.” Apart from its upcoming adaptation, there were many reasons to bring back the original. “We’ve done a lot of Argento over the years, so we’ve already got a huge base of Argento Fans,” said Jim Carl, senior director of programming. “The fact that the remake is coming out Nov. 2 is just icing on the cake. ’Suspiria,’ fall, Halloween – these are just staples.” Set in a private dance academy in Freiburg, Germany, the movie chronicles the initiation of new ballet student Susie

(Jessica Harper), and the mysterious events that follow inside the lavishly decorated mansion. Upon arrival, Susiesees a young girl sprint feverishly away from the academy; as we find out later, said student is the first of multiple victims in this genredefining horror flick. In a series of iconic shots, graphic murder scenes and haunting photography, Argento delivers a stunning picture laden with anxiety, tension and gore. Film critics have devoted extensive attention to Argento’s active use of glaring colors which permeate the entire film, as well as the rest of his work. Unlike the somber, monochrome palettes of modern horror movies, “Suspiria” appears like an expressionist painting in which colors take over narrative functions and contribute to the advancement of the plot. Famously, Argento commented that he was “trying to reproduce the color of Walt Disney’s Snow White,” a rather unorthodox source of inspiration for such a gruesome movie. Still, fellow directors like Stuart Gordon, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper have praised its nightmarish and uncanny qualities, which openly incorporate the supernatural. Like many cult classics, “Suspiria” is somewhat unknown among today’s youth who are more concerned with more recent productions. Commenting on whether the upcoming adaptation will help arouse interest in its role model, Carl was skeptical. “The remakes only help if they’re good,” he said. “If it’s a bad remake, people who never knew it was a remake will not give the original a chance in most cases.” Starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, the remake premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September. Swinton, who

is widely known for her performance in “Orlando,” an adaptation of the eponymous Virginia Woolf novel, plays two roles, though she initially claimed that her second part was played by a German actor named Lutz Ebersdorf. Prior to the original “Suspiria,” Dario Argento was a pioneer of “Giallo,” a specifically Italian genre of thrillers named after the yellow jackets of cheap mystery novels common at that time. Such films include Argento’s first, “The Bird With The Chrystal Plumage” (1970) or Sergio Martino’s “The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh” (1971) and tend to follow a set pattern.

First, a shocking murder is committed; then, a seemingly unrelated bystander is drawn into the action and after ample plot-twists and supplemental murders, the culprit is often found to be a seemingly unrelated female character. Recent reviews of the new “Suspiria” have disagreed on whether it is a worthy remake of its famous predecessor. Still, it remains highly anticipated among Argento fans as well as modern horror enthusiasts, and a major opening weekend is to be expected. Making a trip to the Carolina in order to get in the appropriate mood is thus the perfect preparation, as the original will be on daily until the remake drops.

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Carolina Theatre will screen Dario Argento’s 1977 film “Suspiria” ahead of the release of the remake.

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November Dances 2018 Friday-Saturday, November 16-17 7:30 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

November Dances 2018 is the Duke Dance Program’s fall concert featuring ballet, modern, and dance theater works by Duke faculty Michael Kliën and Julie Janus Walters, as well as Duke Dance alum Maurice Dowell, and current students Jun Shepherd and Gabrielle Cooper.

PEOPLE GET READY: BUILDING A CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION Saturday, September 1-Sunday, January 6 Nasher Museum of Art

VISIONARY APONTE: ART & BLACK FREEDOM Wednesday, September 19-Saturday, November 17 Power Plant Gallery

ONE HURRICANE SEASON Thursday, October 11-Sunday, February 17 Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries, Center for Documentary Studies

ALUMNI FILMMAKER HOMECOMING: “BEACH HOUSE” Thursday, November 1 7 pm Rubenstein Arts Center, film theater

DANCING AT LUGHNASA Thursday, November 8-Sunday, November 18 Sheafer Theater

DUKE DJEMBE & AFRO-CUBAN ENSEMBLES Friday, November 9 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium

Brought to you by Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Dance Program, Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image’s Screen/Society and Theater Studies.

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COUNTDOWN CHAOS What really happened at the Countdown to Craziness ticket line this year By Likhitha Butchireddygari Contributing Writer

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It was 5:40 a.m. when Likhitha arrived. At first, I made a pact with myself that I would leave at 6:50 no matter what to take my car out of Allen Lot. Then 6:50 a.m. came and I had barely moved in line. So, I pushed back my deadline to 7:30 a.m., then 8:15 a.m., then approaching 9 a.m. There were still probably 100 people at that point and I had no plan. I couldn’t wait in this line forever. I had this gut feeling that I got a parking ticket or towed. Then, a line monitor made an announcement. They were sold out. Part of me felt relief. At least, I didn’t have to wait in this line anymore. But, mostly I was frustrated. I was a senior who had never been to Countdown to Craziness. And after standing in that line for more than three hours, I left empty-handed. The sun had yet to rise and hundreds of students were already lined up to get Countdown to Craziness tickets for themselves and their parents. We are both news reporters for The Chronicle, but we were also among those in line. Neither of us got tickets. An ‘unprecedented’ number of people showed up Countdown to Craziness is the annual unveiling of the Duke men’s basketball team, featuring a scrimmage, student performances

ticketing operations for Duke Athletics. This year, however, they were sold out by 9 a.m. “My experience this year was the worst I have had trying to acquire [Duke basketball] tickets,” wrote junior Yannet Daniel. “I was already on the fence about deciding to go to Countdown, but after waiting in line for three

Three years ago, a Halloween nightmare snapped Duke football out of a two-and-ahalf-year dream, and the Blue Devils haven’t fully recovered. From the start of the 2013 season until the moment Ross Martin sent a squib kick bouncing down the field with six seconds left against Miami on that crisp, clear night at Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke’s record was 25-9. Since then, the Blue Devils are 18-21. With Duke getting ready to face the Hurricanes close to Halloween again, it’s a good time to reflect on the unmistakable dividing line between real relevance and middling mediocrity in the program’s recent history. Beginning with the Blue Devils’ recordsetting 10-win season in 2013 that featured an eight-game winning streak and an ACC Coastal Division title, it seemed like every close game went the Blue Devils’ way. Duke wasn’t as talented as many of its opponents, but it won by being smart and disciplined, and it never beat itself. The 2014 season would have featured a second straight Coastal Division crown if

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The line monitors coiled the ticket line for Countdown to Craziness this year in order to clear space in the Krzyzewskiville area. and occasionally a dunk contest. This is the second year in a row in which it has fallen on Family Weekend, which typically includes a basketball game. Tickets sold out unusually fast this year. Tickets for Family Weekend basketball events are sold around a week before, starting at 6 a.m. They typically sell out later that day or the next day, said Elinor Hurt, executive director of

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Duke spoils Pittsburgh’s quest for a perfect season By Evan Kolin Staff Writer

Pittsburgh came into Durham looking to move within six games of its first undefeated regular season in program history. Duke, however, had other ideas. The Blue Devils defeated the fifth-ranked Panthers 3-1 (18-25, 26-24, 25-23, 25-22) Sunday afternoon at Cameron 1 Indoor PITT Stadium. 3 Pittsburgh outhit Duke DUKE .361 to .242 in the first set, but an ability to play in the moment allowed the Blue Devils to squeeze by three close wins en route to one of the season’s biggest upsets. “This team in the last two weeks has been doing a good job of focusing on the task at hand...playing one point at a time,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We are thinking about the right things when we are in the middle of

the match.” The Blue Devils (13-8, 7-5 in the ACC) came into the matchup riding a three-game winning streak, though an upset over the Panthers (23-1, 11-1 in the ACC) still appeared to be a near-impossible dream. In its three previous matches against ranked opponents, Duke had managed to win only one total set. And in the first set against Pittsburgh, it did not seem like this match would be any different. The Panthers jumped out to an early 8-2 lead anchored by three kills from junior Layne Van Buskirk. The Blue Devils closed the gap to 15-13 behind five Pittsburgh attack errors, but a quick 5-2 run gave the Panthers another commanding edge at 20-15. Duke promptly called a timeout to try to put an end to its opponent’s surging momentum, but to no avail; Pittsburgh came out of the short intermission and quickly finished off the Blue Devils with a 5-3 run to take the set 25-18.

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Samantha Amos’ kill clinched the third-set victory for the Blue Devils. The first-half of the second set stayed close, with Duke holding a slim 12-11 edge. But the Blue Devils then won six out of the next seven points to bolt out to an assertive 18-12 advantage. Slowly, however, the Panthers came back, with a

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COLUMN FROM PAGE 11 not for two missed field goals at home against Virginia Tech, one of the few tight games during that stretch that went the other way. But the Blue Devils got their revenge on the Hokies the next year with a thrilling 45-43 four-overtime victory on the road on Oct. 24, 2015. The win pushed Duke to 6-1 and put the Blue Devils in a good position to win the Coastal once again. A struggling Miami team that had just lost 58-0 to Clemson at home and fired head coach Al Golden was coming to town next. Duke was a 10-point favorite. Most of the game did not go according to plan, as Miami’s defense stifled the Blue Devils and the Hurricanes led 24-12 in the closing minutes. But Duke scored to trim the deficit to five with 2:40 remaining, got a quick

stop and marched down the field again for a dramatic comeback. Quarterback Thomas Sirk was met at the goal line on a one-yard run with six seconds left and no timeouts left for the Blue Devils, and the referee signaled touchdown. We’ll never know whether the ball crossed the plane of the end zone on that play, but there wasn’t conclusive evidence during the ensuing review to reverse the call. It wasn’t an egregious miscarriage of justice like what came next. You know what came next, right? I’ll give you a summary if you’re new here. Martin squibbed a kick to Miami’s 25yard line. The Hurricanes lateraled a bunch of times. On the fourth lateral, Mark Walton’s knee hit the ground before he released the ball, which should have ended the game. Miami got away with multiple blocks in the back before it was finally flagged for a questionable block as Corn Elder finished sprinting down the left

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Daniel Jones’ tenure at Duke has been successful, but has yet to bring the Blue Devils to the level of an ACC Coastal contender like his predecessors.

COUNTDOWN FROM PAGE 11 hours only to be told that the tickets were sold out, this experience has changed the way I view the program. It seemed as though very little, if any, planning went into this procedure.” Peter Potash, one of the co-head line monitors, called the number of people in line for Countdown tickets “unprecedented.” “That is just kind of the way K-Ville works,” he said. “Sometimes there’s a lot of people and unfortunately with limited capacity you’re not going to get a ticket if you don’t come early enough.” Students’ reactions: slow line, cutting, lack of transparency One of students’ main frustrations with the ticket line was how slowly it moved. Sometimes, it wouldn’t move at all for thirty minutes at a time. Senior Siera Lunn wrote in an email that the line moved at a “snail’s pace.” Right at 6 a.m., when the box office was set to start selling tickets, the ticketing system suddenly went down for 45 minutes. That meant the box office staff had to write down students’ information so students could pick up their tickets later. “It was scheduled maintenance, but that information had not made its way to our office,” Hurt explained. “But after speaking with the line monitors, we thought it was better to start rather than have everybody wait.”

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The box office ended up closing one of its four windows to enter orders that were taken before the system started working. Potash said that after seeing the incredible amount of people lined up at K-Ville before 6 a.m., he made the decision to have a snaked line at the box office so “we weren’t in the way of workers.” The snaked line made it much easier for students to cut, some said. “In a straight line, it’s obviously not that easy to cut. People will see you,” said sophomore Maya King. “In the snake formation, it was just very easy to kind of move over a foot and you’d be like 50 people ahead. That was super frustrating.” On the line monitor’s Facebook post detailing the rules of Countdown, it stresses that students are responsible for holding their own spot in line. Line monitors would be there to maintain order. Potash said it was tough to catch people cutting the line because those people were purposefully avoiding the line monitors’ gazes. He was disappointed with students who cut, but he said students in line were supposed to report any cutting to the line monitors. Nobody did. While he said the line monitors would better prepare for cutting and large crowds in subsequent years, he added that there was not a whole lot they could’ve done this year. He said that most of the cutting was performed individually and not all at once like last year’s Carolina walk-up line.

sideline into the end zone. At least there was a flag. Justice would be served. Except it wasn’t. At some point during the officials’ interminable huddle after the play, they decided to pick up the flag without communicating that to the crowd. And, of course, the replay official inexplicably missed the fact that THE KNEE WAS DOWN. After more than nine minutes of uncertainty, referee Jerry Magallanes raised his arms to give Miami a touchdown and proclaimed, “The game is over,” cementing the biggest college football officiating snafu of this century. Magallanes and his crew were suspended two weeks for their collective incompetence on the play, but the uproar couldn’t change the outcome. Miami won, 30-27. It was the first defeat of a disastrous four-game losing streak for Duke, and the Blue Devils haven’t seriously contended in the Coastal Division ever since. Sure, there have been a couple of encouraging moments amid all the disappointment of the last three years, including Duke’s first two bowl wins of the last half-century. But it was far more glamorous to go toe-to-toe with Texas A&M’s Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl in a 52-48 loss than it was to beat Northern Illinois in an empty stadium in the lowly Quick Lane Bowl last year. Since the 2015 Miami game, the Blue Devils’ seniors are 0-4 against Pittsburgh. They’re 0-4 against Virginia and 0-3 against Virginia Tech. And they haven’t come close to beating the Hurricanes. A win this weekend in their fourth and final chance probably wouldn’t be enough to help Duke threaten for the top spot in the Coastal— that ship has already sailed with three losses in the last month. But it could be just what the Blue Devils need to reverse the curse and finally start to escape the bitter shadow of what happened three years ago.

“I think the way we handled it was actually not terrible given the circumstances,” Potash noted. Apart from the pace of the line and cutting, three students that spoke with The Chronicle were frustrated by the lack of warning regarding how many tickets were left, so it came as a shock when students were told the tickets were sold out. By our count, there were still at least a hundred students left in the line at that point. “It was very out of the blue that they were completely sold out, which I obviously don’t know how much power [the line monitors] have over that, but people were very, very angry,” King said. Potash said the line monitors were not told how many tickets were left on sale until they were all sold out. “We didn’t ask [the box office] throughout the process because they were also really busy, because everyone was just going at full speed,” he said. When asked why the box office didn’t warn the line monitors that they were running out of tickets, Hurt said that “people stayed in line so they could be put on the request list.” Students could get off the request list if anyone returned their tickets before Countdown. Why was the line so long? Many were surprised about the massive ticket line. “I think the line was mostly long because people heard the line would be long and

VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 11 Duke to give in, and that jolt of energy was just what the Blue Devils needed. “It is always helpful to have energy supporting you,” redshirt junior Leah Meyer said. “It really fueled us and helped us when we were down a little bit and just gave us that little extra push to get back to do what we have to do.” A few points later, a spike from graduate student Andie Shelton appeared to go out of bounds, giving Pittsburgh the set and a 2-0 match lead. But the call on the court was quickly changed, making the score 24-24 and giving Duke an opportunity to fight back. The team did just that, taking the next two points to win the set 26-24. The third set was a test of which team wanted it more. After a Shelton ball-handling error gave Pittsburgh an 11-10 edge, the Panthers and Blue Devils then proceeded to trade the next 20 points. Neither unit was able to score consecutively until, finally, Duke reeled off three straight points to take a 23-21 lead. Four points later, a kill from junior Samantha Amos won the set for the Blue Devils. “I think our team did a great job today of setting up the block and [we] made some pretty spectacular digs,” Nagel said. “We were fortunate enough to make some of those good plays at that critical time in order to score enough points to finish that [third] set.” At this point, the intro to Cascada’s “Everytime We Touch” began blasting from the Cameron loudspeaker, pumping up the crowd with Duke needing to win only one of the two remaining sets to complete the improbable upset. The Blue Devils would do it in one, taking the fourth set 25-22. The match ended on an electric kill from sophomore Payton Schwantz, who was promptly swarmed by her teammates.

decided to go earlier because of that,” wrote senior Audrey Ellis. “I know a freshman whose RA told them that it’s best to sleep out to get tickets when usually there are like max 50 people there before 5:30.” First-year Emily Ma was also told to get to the line early, so she woke up at 4 a.m. “Yeah, there were so many rumors going around that you had to wake up at 4 o’clock, 3 o’clock—these ridiculous times in order to get tickets and I know so many people who even slept over at Perkins to get them,” she said. Another factor that potentially contributed to the size of the line was when the event happened. For the past two years, Countdown to Craziness has fallen on Family Weekend. Likely, many students were in line to get guest tickets for their visiting family members. “You were standing in line with all your friends. It was really early, so everyone was tired,” Ma said. “You ran into so many people in line, so I definitely wouldn’t say it was a bad experience.” Some students said that students should somehow get preference over guests for Countdown tickets. Ma said she knew students who bought guest tickets and resold them to other students. “I don’t believe that guests should get tickets before students for Countdown,” Lunn wrote. “Countdown is where the students are introduced to the team and get pumped up about the upcoming season, so I think students’ attendance should be prioritized before guests.”

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FROM PAGE 4 “It was deep, it was focused, it was a passionate ‘yes’ for everything we were about,” Miglarese said. Mutually beneficial partners It has taken a long time to overcome the history between Duke and the town, and while the relationship still faces challenges, the DDNP continues to grow. The DDNP started to build playgrounds, health clinics and after-school programs. It doubled its loan commitment to Self-Help and expanded affordable housing efforts to Southwest Central Durham neighborhoods. In 2008, Duke created the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, which included the DDNP. The first vice president in charge of the office, Phail Wynn, came to Duke after 28 years as the president of Durham Technical Community College. Wynn served for 10 years before retiring this spring, and he died unexpectedly in July. The DDNP currently works with 12 neighborhoods close to campus, nine nearby schools and about 50 nonprofits. Burness explained that as Duke moved thousands of its employees off campus to downtown, they created a demand for services like restaurants and shops and revitalized the city. Downtown Durham is now a more vibrant place for students to visit, and Duke’s environment holds more diverse viewpoints and has a more diverse engagement of the community, Burness noted. Miglarese said Duke is considered part of Durham more than before, and the University has switched from a self-centered

Ongoing issues Burness noted that there are still elements within Durham that view Duke as strictly a financial entity which should provide more money to solve more issues. At campus-wide discussions about Duke and Durham, Miglarese expressed frustration because the conversations were often onesided—the faculty simply stated that Duke should be doing more. He noted that for some members of the community, Duke can never do too much. Patterson thinks Duke can do more, especially being so close. If there was a community outreach program with the athletes, he said they would have a profound impact on lowering crime rates through connecting with the kids in the community. Miglarese said there has never been enough of an appreciation for the shift in the DukeDurham relationship that took place in the 1990s, and the role of offices and organizations have often been minimized. “If Duke can convince faculty, staff, students, to get closer, to pay attention to the power in proximity in the neighborhoods nearest campus, to the city center and beyond, we will tap into a sense of place and sense of connection we have never had before,” Miglarese said. The 2006 Duke lacrosse case was a particularly strained time for the relationship between Duke and Durham. Major news outlets were reporting on the divide between Duke and people of color and Duke and North Carolina Central University for a national audience. Miglarese’s job was to promote to the community and students that the relationship between Duke and Durham was not a grand canyon.

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Miglarese described that time as “the most difficult year of my life as an employee in this office.” Without the previous partnerships that Duke formed with the community, the lacrosse case would have had a more detrimental impact on the University’s relationship with Durham, he said. Junior Uwa Ihionkhan, Duke Student Government’s vice president of Durham and regional affairs, said that the “Duke bubble,” or the idea that Duke students rarely leave campus, is real. She noticed that students perceive Durham only through what it can provide, such as food or entertainment, and she hopes this perception will change. Yet, Durham is also marketed to students in such a way. Common barriers to venturing off campus include transportation, limited awareness of off-campus opportunities and misconceptions about safety, she said. DSG is hoping to increase engagement with Durham by better informing students about educational, entertainment and employment opportunities in the area. “I would love for Duke students to see Durham more for its vibrant history, the culture, the people and all that it has to provide,” Ihionkhan said.

proximity to the city and their own experience and exploration of Durham, he said. “Students are often caught in a bind between the amenities of campus, which try to build up a sense of community, and a willingness for them to step out of campus, either through service-learning, volunteering or social action groups,” Miglarese said. Stelfanie Williams, Trinity ‘98, succeeded Wynn as Duke’s vice president for Durham affairs. During her time as an undergraduate, she sensed that students wanted to connect community involvement to learning, though it was more challenging back then. She noted there are now more opportunities for students to be involved off campus. “Duke is a ‘citizen’ of Durham and must provide resources and talent strategically to support economic and community development,” Williams wrote in an email. Duke must be involved with the quality of life in Durham, Burness noted. The students and faculty live in this city, and they want to come to a place that is as lively as Durham is now—students particularly want to be near a vibrant community with attractive programs and service opportunities nearby, he added. Duke cannot pick up and move to a different An anchor institution city, so Durham is Duke’s community as much “Duke will always be an anchor institution, as anybody else’s, and Burness said part of the it’s not just a corporate entity,” Miglarese said. University’s mission should be to get students In order to be an effective anchor institution, engaged in society. Miglarese explained that it is important for “When we started the neighborhood students and faculty to experience Durham partnership, it was in some sense a belief that if and get a sense of the people and the history, we could get our students engaged in the needs as well as appreciate the shift that has occurred and activities of our community, the values within the city and school. they would take from that kind of community Each year, a new crop of students moves involvement and service would stay with into East Campus, and they must be educated them,” Burness said. “So, when they left and New York Syndication about the The city where they Times now live, Miglarese Sales wentCorporation into their own communities, they would 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 explained. They For must do this through be more Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 activists then.” For October30, 31,2018 2018 ForRelease ReleaseWednesday, Tuesday, October

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hile the end of October marks the culmination of one spooky season, yet another is just beginning for us here at dear old Duke. The start of bookbagging for the Spring semester is a stressful time for many, riddled with unease and uncertainty as students wade through DukeHub searching for the perfect schedule. Tis’ the season when Google searches for “T-recs?” spike, students frantically cross-check RateMyProfessors for red flags and the frustration of adhering to a ‘Long Range Plan’ reasserts itself. For seniors, the thrill of finally being first or second to register competes with the bittersweet reality of their final semester. Meanwhile, underclassmen will find plenty of relatable meme content to soothe the pain of watching every class in their bookbag fill with upperclassmen. Though these decisions about what to take next semester are in many respects personal, the calculus that informs them is constantly clouded by the ideas, opinions and priorities of others that compete for dominance as we go book-bagging. We are pressured by the administration and our advisors to “explore new horizons,” “to branch out” and to “take advantage of new opportunities” through Duke’s extensive liberal arts curriculum. At the same time, grad schools and summer programs alike are constantly reminding us not

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to neglect our GPAs, creating a stressful, seemingly irresolvable conflict during scheduling. Amidst this chaos and emotion, the two weeks offered between the start of book-bagging and class registration, nonetheless, provide a rare opportunity for reflection and for growth. It forces us to confront both our anxieties and our ambitions as we decide how best to reconcile them. While getting input from as many advisors, upperclassmen, alums, family members and friends on what classes to take may be helpful, it is worth taking time to consider your own personal goals. Maybe this takes the form of a long-term ambition, like going to graduate school, in which case carefully choosing

Editorial Board your classes might be the most important thing. Perhaps instead there is a project you have been working on, a certain topic you would like to learn more about, or a professor you have been waiting to get to know better. Regardless of where you fall, there are a multitude of options to get what you want most out of the upcoming semester, beyond searching for courses. Overloading, for example, is not only for the serially ambitious. Plenty of course combinations make for a manageable five-class semester. Similarly, consider the possibility of adding a half-credit course to engage with a subject in a more casual setting, or taking a class at a neighboring university—the cost is included in your tuition! For classes that look more interesting,

but are incompatible with your GPA goal, auditing is always a possibility, as is the opportunity to take the class pass/fail. Creating an independent study to explore a particular subject of interest could also be a worthwhile. Although it is not necessarily advertised well, undergraduates also have the opportunity to take graduate classes both in their majors and at other schools—for example, the law school. With so many possibilities and so much information being flung from all directions, it can be hard to make sense of the best path moving forward into the Spring of 2019. Certainly, advising at Duke is not always the most coherent. From randomly assigned pre-major advisors to well-meaning, yet often overcommitted major advisors, advice may do more harm than good. When advisors seem to be out of their depth, do not be afraid to encourage them to suggest other faculty or students who might be more familiar with the topic. And in a similar vein, your assigned advisor is not the only person capable of helping you parse your options. Be empowered to reach out to other faculty whose opinions you respect, while bearing in mind that these are classes to build your semester and yours alone. So much about the upcoming year is uncertain. Will the juniors returning from abroad have anywhere to live on campus? Will banning tables in K-Ville change Duke for the better? Will we get to see snow? Will President Price ever get contacts? And yet, in the midst of these uncertainty, our lives go on. Bookbagging and registration should be no different, as long as we give ourselves permission to do so.

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ell, ladies and gentlemen. By the grace of the dark forces of the underworld, we have made it to the end of Spooky Season. If you, like me, read new Chronicle articles as soon as they come out, your eyes should be scanning these words mere hours from the darkest night of the year—Halloween. Since we were little, we’ve been told horrifying tales about what happens on Halloween: stories about ghosts roaming the streets, blades being hidden in children’s candy or masked murderers waiting just beyond the tree line. Though their degrees of truth vary, each of these tales paralyzes us with fear. But to me, the most frightening threat this and every Halloween doesn’t involve the walking dead or a foreign object in my Skittles: the scariest part of Halloween actually haunts Duke year-round. It lurks in the shadows of our learning environments, the gym and even our own extracurriculars. What I am afraid of

Ryan Williams COLUMNIST most this Halloween is the looming presence of sexual assault and harassment on this campus. There are many ways sexual assault haunts each and every one of us. The first is in the comments that we make. Understand that one of the best parts about Halloween is getting to dress as someone or something else for a couple of hours. The quickest way to ruin someone else’s evening is to say any version of, “that costume is a little slutty, don’t you think?” or “wow, you’re showing off a lot,” or “are you sure you don’t want to put a jacket on?” If we are to take sexual harassment and assault seriously, we have to change the way we talk about a person’s right to their own body. If your biggest bro wants to go to Franklin Street with nothing but a speedo, goggles, and an open M. Phelps Olympic jacket, he is allowed that right. Similarly, if your homegirl wants to recreate Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda cover art before going to the kickback, she is allowed that right. People should be able to enjoy Halloween without fear of being judged or chastised for the way they express themselves. The second way Halloween is instantly ruined for

someone else is by the actions we allow as bystanders. As the night goes on and festivities ramp up, being an active bystander is the best way to prevent an event that might haunt someone for rest of their life. “Well, Ryan, how exactly do I intervene?” Glad you asked! When your friend makes a comment about someone that you wouldn’t want to be made about you, tell them to chill out. If you notice someone taking advantage of another person who is obviously too drunk to consent, step in and de-escalate the situation. If all else fails, pretend to be an old friend of someone in a compromising position to repel potential creeps. Being an active bystander is all about intervening on someone else’s behalf to ensure the safety of all parties. If you still need more information about being an active bystander and how you can help, get PACT and Party Monitor trained. The third, and by no means final, way sexual assault impacts all of us is in its ability to completely alter lives. Halloween, sadly, creates a culture where these events have the potential to be more common than they already are. If we have learned anything from the #MeToo movement, the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, or from student leaders on this very campus, it’s that one interaction can damage an entire life for a survivor. And often, justice is never realized as their assaulters continue to live their lives and even get appointed to the highest court in the land. We don’t need more Brett Kavanaughs. We need students who are willing to stop these situations from occurring in the first place. Halloween is meant to be a scary night. The dead are supposed to walk among us as strangers knock on random doors and receive candy from homeowners. Despite its origins, Halloween has been a fun staple of life for many of us since we were little. As we got older, the fun has only intensified, but so has the possibility of real danger. So, as we take part in the traditions of America’s favorite scary holiday, let’s make sure that what we say and do this Halloween doesn’t make someone’s reality a living nightmare. Look out for your friends, look out for yourself and be an active bystander. Once the calendar flips over to November 1st, remember the steps you took to make sure everyone made it home safe and employ those steps each and every time you go out. Ryan Williams is a Trinity sophomore. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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inancial aid at Duke is under threat, and the regressive policies that administrators may institute in the coming weeks and months could trigger a crisis of affordability at Duke. The sudden defunding of our healthcare is a harbinger of further financial aid rollbacks that could unfold. I have worked extensively with our current policy, and here, using publicly available data, I make predictions regarding how that policy may change for the worse at precisely the moment when we need it the most. What becomes clear through this analysis is what could be at stake for thousands of students: summer aid, summer earnings, manageable work study and affordable healthcare.

Luke Farrell COLUMNIST

I estimate the current financial aid budget by running simulated aid packages using the online financial aid calculator and examining distributions of aided students that exist in the public record across dozens of documents from the past decade. (The graphs below provide further information about the derivation of these numbers.) By analyzing these data, we can gain insight into the devastating decisions administration may be contemplating right now. And while these numbers are an approximation, they can serve to form the basis of our understanding of the magnitude of the problem we face. These numbers are not official Chronicle or University data and are solely my estimates. The estimation of the deficit above creates a clear predicament for the administration. The resulting goal: reduce financial aid spending by $10-15 million within the next year, without harming bottom line reported statistics— like average grant aid or average loan burden of graduating students. If administration hopes to achieve this, the aid programs that logically will be shed are those “extras” not calculated in the bottom line: summer aid, summer earnings, work study and healthcare. To the administration, these forms of aid have become burdensome line items; to the students who receive them, they

define their Duke experience. The recent removal of funding for the Student Medical Insurance Plan for students with a calculated parent contribution greater than $0 means that approximately 1,200 current students may face an added annual burden of $3,535, though that cost may not affect all students equally. This decision has earned wide and rightful criticism. But what should cause even greater fear is the signal of financial desperation it sends. By not grandfathering current students in, this decision is estimated to free up between three and five million dollars to cover part of the deficit incurred by financial aid this year. This signals unequivocally that our financial aid budget is in danger. And by targeting a program as vital as healthcare, the administration signals that no form of aid is too precious to be protected. In the estimated annual budget, $8 million pays for students’ ninth semester or summer session attendance (assuming all eligible students take advantage of it). This funding is vital to level the playing field for students of low and middle socioeconomic status, especially those who are pre-medicine or in Pratt. Many of these students enter Duke with fewer credits from AP or IB classes and need this opportunity to finish their program, yet summer and ninth semester aid could become a target. By removing summer aid, Duke would be fundamentally de-prioritizing the academic success of its most vulnerable students. Similarly, funds for compensating students who chose unpaid summer experiences like DukeEngage or unpaid internships could be at risk. Without the $1.5 million I estimated is invested in summer earnings replacement, the several hundred students that rely on it every year may be forced to forego Duke’s most enriching opportunities. By stripping the availability of summer earning, the administration would be widening the inequality of access already present between hundreds of financial aid recipients and their wealthier peers. Along with cutting programs that support students over the summer, the administration could also contemplate expanding the earning requirements expected of students throughout the year. Current aid packages expect $2,200 worth of work study per year for most students on financial aid, yet already on the financial aid website, that number has risen to $3,000 beginning Fall 2019. Without a corresponding rise in wages, the 10 hours of work a week already expected of low and middle income students will need to rise to more than 13 hours a week. Further, there is evidence that as work study requirements increase, students will

increase their loan borrowing and see their academic performance decline. This unannounced decision will save the University around $2.2 million by requiring extra hours of labor by poorer students. An increase in work study expectations fundamentally denigrates the time and effort of low and middle income students as compared to their richer classmates. Each of these catastrophic policy decisions being sent out through letters, quietly posted on websites, and whispered by administration has been made without any substantive discourse with the students that they will directly affect. Thousands of current and incoming students have been left in the dark, as the the plug may be pulled on their healthcare, summers and manageable work studies. Based on my estimates, these cuts will have the desired outcome of saving the administration approximately $11.4 million, with the consequence of making thousands of students wonder if they can afford to be a part of the Duke community. No one person in the administration is the sole architect of this regression, but there are many single individuals who can stop it. Jack Bovender, chair of the Board of Trustees, President Vincent Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth all have the power and the responsibility to prevent these devastating cuts and to double down on our commitment to financial aid instead. Specifically, Jack Bovender can encourage the Board to increase our endowment spending rate for financial aid from 5.75 percent to 6.5 percent to recoup much of the current deficit. Price can make financial aid the cornerstone of his capital campaign and raise $300 million like his predecessor. And Kornbluth can involve students directly in this conversation before proposing any more programmatic cuts that will fundamentally alter their lives. These solutions exist, and thousands of students and parents should not be losing sleep imagining what financial aid crisis will arrive in the mail next. Administrators have been muddling through a mess of back room budgets and grouping us into aggregated statistics, and in the process our lives have become lost among line items. Don’t let them. Tell the administrators—who alone determine the fate of financial aid—who you are. Tell them what these programs have done for you. And remind them that what they choose to do affects more than just the numbers. Luke Farrell is a Trinity senior. His column By The Numbers usually runs on alternate Thursdays.

Graphics by Luke Farrell Package estimates are aggregated from the online financial aid calculator provided by the financial aid office (2016). The estimated distribution of student need is extrapolated from public records released by Duke Magazine (2012), NPR (2014), and Duke Today (2010-2017) to fit the current aided population as released by Duke Today (2017). The estimated aggregate budget is produced by combining the packages with the distribution of students that receive them. The deficit is calculated using DUMAC reports on financial aid endowment spending (2017) compared to the estimated budget. Look online to explore the data.

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